Revision as of 15:49, 20 March 2015

Importing Data between Different Version of ZCS servers using the Zimbra to Zimbra Migration Tool

Use the Zimbra to Zimbra migration tool zmztozmig to import account data from one Zimbra Collaboration Server to another Zimbra Collaboration Server that is running a different version of ZCS. This tool can be used to import files from ZCS 6.0.6 or later to the latest version of ZCS.

The process of migrating accounts to a ZCS server running a later version of ZCS includes:

Provisioning the accounts on the destination server before running zmztozmig

Editing the zmztozmig.conf file in /opt/zimbra/conf on the destination server to configure the import settings

Running zmztozmig to import the account’s data to the destination server

When zmztozmig is used to import files, after the data is imported, the data in the accounts on the destination server are not an exact replica of the data in the accounts on the source server.
And account preferences are not imported. Also, if the destination accounts do not have the same account IDs as they had on the source server, files that were shared and appointments related to the original sender might not work.

Note: Since 7.1.3 Zimbra includes a new zmmboxmove command that has enhanced functionality of zmmailboxmove to handle cross mailstore version migrations (but not across ldap instance like zmztozmig). So, keep using zmmailboxmove or zmmboxmove to migrate accounts between accounts with the same LDAP Master.

Import and provision accounts from the source LDAP

1. The first step is to import all the accounts that you want to migrate from one server to another server. Here is an example of the environment:

11. An overview of the accounts that will be migrated displays. Click Next and the wizard start the migration.

12. The Progress screen displays errors, this is normal.

13. If you return to the accounts view, all of the accounts are migrated, but the data is not migrated yet.

Preparing the zmztozmig.conf file

Edit the zmztozmig.conf file in /opt/zimbra/conf on the destination server to configure the import settings. Account data, including email messages, attachments, contacts, calendar, tasks and briefcase folders for accounts are imported as individual account tgz tar files.
Content of the Junk and Trash folders are not imported.

The following information is configured in the file:

Login information of the source server

Login information of the destination server

Domain mapping from source server to destination server

Account import details, including which accounts’ to import from and what type of information should be imported

Record keeping information, including log directory, whether to keep the tar files after migration, directory for failed migration files

How to resolve account import conflicts (resolve)

Number of mailboxes to import simultaneously (thread)

(Optional) Changes to ZimbraMailTransport that may be required

Following is a description of the parameters that are edited in the zmztozmig.conf file.

Parameter

Description

Entered as

SourceZCSServer

IP address or name of the source server.

SourceZCSServer=<source.com>

SourceAdminUser

ZCS administrator name for the source server.

SourceAdminUser=<sourceadmin>

SourceAdminPwd

ZCS administrator password for the source server.

SourceAdminPwd=<adminpswrd>

SourceAdminPort

Source server admin port - 7071

SourceAdminPort=<port>

TargetZCSServer

IP address or name of the destination server where the data is imported.

TargetZCSServer=<destination.com>

TargetAdminUser

ZCS administrator name for the destination server.

TargetAdminUser=<targetadmin>

TargetAdminPwd

ZCS administrator password for the destination server.

TargetAdminPwd=<adminpswrd>

TargetAdminPort

Destination server admin port- 7071.

TargetAdminPort=<port>

Threads

Set the number of accounts to be imported simultaneously. The default is 1.

Set this at a low number of threads. When you start to import the data, review the source/destination ZCS server CPU usage I/O rate and write to disk per second. If the server has power to run more threads, you can edit the zmztozmig.conf file to increase the threads one at a time.

Threads=<n>

WorkingDirectory

The directory path to where the tar’d account data files are downloaded.

WorkingDirectory=/opt/zimbra/data/zmztozmig/work

FailedDirectory

The directory path to where tar’d account data files are moved if the account import fails.

FailedDirectory=/opt/zimbra/data/zmztozmig/failed

KeepSuccessFiles

KeepSuccessFiles is set to FALSE. The tar files are deleted after the data is imported.

If you want to keep the downloaded tar files after they are imported, set this to TRUE.

KeepSuccessFiles=FALSE

SuccessDirectory

If you set KeepSuccessFiles to TRUE, identify the directory where tar’d account files are moved after successful imported.

SuccessDirectory=/opt/zimbra/data/zmztozmig/successes

LogDirectory

A common log file, ztozlog*.log, is created for the complete import process and separate log file are created for each account data file that is imported.

Configure the directory location where log files are saved.

LogDirectory=/opt/zimbra/data/zmztozmig/logs

DomainMap

If accounts are being migrated from one domain to another domain, specify the source domain and destination domain.

You can create multiple DomainMap entries if the Accounts list contains accounts from different domains.

DomainMap=fromdomain.com todomain.com

Accounts

Specify which account’s data should be imported. This is a comma separated list of accounts.

If data from all accounts on the source server should be imported, enter all.

The Domains parameter must be set to list the domain from which the files are being imported.

Accounts=test1@example.com,test2@example.com

OrAccounts=all

Domains

When the Accounts parameter is set to all, identify the domains.

Domains=domain1.example.com, domain2.example.com

Types

Specify the type of data that should be imported. This is a comma separated list.

To import all content, do not set any values for “types” Comment it out.

Types=message, conversation

Types are:

message

conversation

contact

appointment

task

briefcase

Resolve

Use Resolve to determine how to resolve conflicts between the items being imported and the items already in the destination account.

Only one value at a time can be set.

Values:

Skip ignores duplicates

Modify updates older items

Reset deletes the older subfolders

Replace means replace the existing items with the items being imported

Resolve=skip

ZimbraMailTransport

Using ZimbraMailTransport is optional.

Include this entry if you want to change the ZimbraMailTransport to some other MTA.

Import Account Data to the New Zimbra Server

The data on the source server is zipped and imported to the destination server. If you configured KeepSuccessFiles to FALSE, the tgz file is deleted by default once the account data is imported.

A common log file, ztozlog*.log, is created for the complete process and separate log files are created for data of each account that is imported. These should be saved until the new account data has been verified.

This is the end of the import process. An overview of the migration displays: